1. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthenique, which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules, whose main character is a gentleman thief.
Maurice Leblanc continued to pen Lupin tales well into the 1930s.
Maurice Leblanc wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux, in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians, and Le Formidable Evenement, in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between England and France.
Maurice Leblanc was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his services to literature, and died in Perpignan in 1941.
Maurice Leblanc was the second child of Emile Leblanc, 34-year-old ship-owner merchant, and of Mathilde Blanche daughter of rich dyers, aged 21 and was delivered by Achille Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert's brother.
Maurice Leblanc had an elder sister Jehanne was born on in 1863 and and a younger sister Georgette Leblanc was born on in 1869 and who from 1883 until the 1920s was an actor and star operatic soprano.
The young Maurice Leblanc received his first education in a free institution, the Patry pension.
Maurice Leblanc's first novel, Une femme, published in 1893 was very successful, and was followed by other works, such as Des couples, Voici des ailes and his only play, La pitie, released in 1902, which is a failure, causing him to give up the theater for a while.
Maurice Leblanc received the Legion of Honor on January 17,1908, presented by then Under-Secretary of State for Fine Arts, Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz.
Maurice Leblanc would start to grow weary of writing Arsene Lupin stories.
In 1918, Maurice Leblanc bought a half-timbered Anglo-Norman house in Etretat, where he wrote 19 novels and 39 short stories.
Maurice Leblanc had health problems and sank into a depression, which was compounded by Marguerite's divorce from her first husband taking time to go through the courts.
Maurice Leblanc's work inspired Gaston Leroux, as well as Souvestre and Allain.
Maurice Leblanc decides to steal the same necklace from the Louvre by mimicking the style of Arsene Lupin.